1School Day
A The Cat Returns fan fiction
By:
Chison
"Hey Neku! What are you doing after school today?" A classmate came to him at lunch time, hunched over Neku's lunch. "huh? After school?" He took a moment to think it over, "Uh…I don't think I'm doing much…why?" The male classmate smiled, "all right. Here is the deal, I'm taking my girl to a baseball game right after class, and its my turn for clean-up." he said, clasping his hands together, "so will you do it Neku?" He thought about it for a moment then nodded his head, a small grin on his face, "uh…sure. I don't have anything going on at all…" Giving Neku a friendly punch to the left shoulder, the friend left with a big smile on his face and returned back to his seat, quietly finishing his lunch.
Sitting in class listening to the teacher drone on about formulas, Neku's mind wandered, he looked over towards the empty desk, "I wonder where Haru is…I haven't seen her sneak into class for a week now…" "Mr. Watanabe, is there a reason why you are spacing out in my class?" The professor asked, glaring at Neku, "Uh…" He snapped out of his train of thought, "No! I'm sorry for not paying attention…" The teacher narrowed his eyes, "good…now we will resume on page 298, everyone please follow along in your text books, you will be tested on this material…" Neku tuned out the teacher again, and looked out the window, following the birds flying outside.
Hearing the final bell ring, Neku started to gather his things when his classmate patted him on the back, "remember you said you would take my spot for the classroom clean up…" Neku stopped, and nodded, placing his bag on the floor, he started moving the desks into the corner, stacking them on top of each other and quietly grabbed a mop bucket; filled it with soap water and started moping up the room. "Hey…" Neku started, his other class mates turned to him, "do you remember that girl that would sneak into class sometimes?" They looked at each other in confusion, "nope…I don't remember anyone like that…It would be pretty funny if someone did though…" Neku heard the slight laughter from his classmates and sighed. "I wonder if its just me who remembers her…" Neku finished his duties, and left the class room an hour and a half after the last bell sounded. Wandering down the street, he watched people going about their duties and errands, his mind started to wander, thinking about Haru. "If I'm the only one who remembers her…then maybe there is something wrong with me…" Coming to a busy intersection, he stopped and pushed the button and waited for the light to change, "I know her first name…but what about her last name?… What was it? Yoshiuka? Yashinoko?" The light changed and he hurried across the road, his home just a few more blocks. Neku sighed as he walked, making his way home; coming to the door he fished his keys from his pocket he unlocked the door and let himself in. "Hello?" his voice echoed through the small two bedroom house, Neku wandered towards the kitchen, finding a note on the table: Honey, I won't be home until late tonight, left some leftovers in the fridge. Love Mom. Neku sighed and placed the note on the table and set his book bag on the ground and trudged upstairs towards his room.
Flopping himself onto the bed, he turned to his left to see a small mirror, his brown eyes matched his naturally spiky brown hair. Neku was a little short for his age group, although it irritated him somewhat, he didn't let it bother him, he was dressed in his school colors, a simple white shirt with a blue tie and a black pair of pants. "Haru has always been in class with us…" With that, Neku's eyes lit up and he began to search frantically in his room for a misplaced yearbook from the previous year. After ten minutes of solid searching, he finally found it; and began to flip through its pages, looking for Haru. "Where is she?" he asked himself, looking through page after page when her face caught his eye, he placed his pointer finger on her picture and read the caption, "Yoshioka, Haru…wow…" Neku thought for a moment, "she's…pretty." He looked at the picture, Haru having short, brown hair and brown eyes to match, dressed in same uniform. "All right…tomorrow is Saturday, I can go to her house and see if she is there…" Neku said aloud and closed the book, and laid it down on the floor and fell asleep.
MUHA! I am over my Writers Block! I just had to start another story to get my juices going, but now that I'm back, my stories are going to be updated!